Preface
Learning Features
Web Ancillaries
Chapters 1 - 21
Glossary
References
Illustration sources and credits
Author index
Subject index
Learning Features
Web Ancillaries
Chapters 1 - 21
- Chapter 1: The Science of Psychology
- Chapter 2: Methodology
- Chapter 3: The Nervous System
- Chapter 4: Learning
- Chapter 5: Motivation
- Chapter 6: Emotion
- Chapter 7: Sensory Processes
- Chapter 8: Perception
- Chapter 9: Infancy and Childhood
- Chapter 10: Adolescence and Adulthood
- Chapter 11: Memory
- Chapter 12: Language and Thought
- Chapter 13: Intelligence
- Chapter 14: Personality
- Chapter 15: Abnormal Psychology
- Chapter 16: Therapy
- Chapter 17: Attitudes, Attributions and Social Cognition
- Chapter 18: Interpersonal Relations and Group Processes
- Chapter 19: Health Psychology
- CHAPTER OUTLINE
- LEARNING OBJECTIVES
- INTRODUCTION
- HEALTH BELIEFS AND BEHAVIOURS
- ILLNESS BELIEFS
- THE STRESS–ILLNESS LINK
- CHRONIC ILLNESS
- FINAL THOUGHTS
- SUMMARY
- REVISION QUESTIONS
- FURTHER READING
- Chapter 20: Organizational Psychology
- Chapter 21: Forensic Psychology
- Behaviour and mortality
- The role of health beliefs
- Integrated models
- The dimensions of illness beliefs
- A model of illness behaviour
- Health professionals’ beliefs
- Stress models
- Does stress cause illness?
- Profile of an illness
- Psychology’s role
References
Illustration sources and credits
Author index
Subject index